Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Fix for Norton Mobile Security (Android) reporting "This network is Compromised by an unknown third party that may view and alter your communications"

This started happening on my Android devices last night.  Unfortunately, it cost me an hour or so of sleep because I started scrambling around changing my wifi network password then updating all the umpteen devices that connect to it.  Then, when I got to work, NMS reported my work wifi as compromised as well!  Seriously?!??

Turns out, it's a false positive alert due to a bug introduced in an application update that was published last night.  It's since been fixed.

Norton Community post from Norton itself reporting the issue and its eventual resolution:
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/nms-wifi-security-network-compromised-alert

To fix the issue, go to Google Play, search for Norton Mobile Security and update the application.  The annoying alerts should go away.